01.2.2025 - 01.2.2025 Talk "Do you wanna live forever" with Brenda Guesnet & Xavier Mary Nosbaum Reding Bruxelles


In the framework of the group exhibition "About Epic Myths", Nosbaum Reding is glad to invite you to the following event, a proposal by and in the presence of Xavier Mary, accompanied by Brenda Guesnet:

17:00
: Film Conan the Barbarian by John Milius (1982)

19:30 : Talk Do you wanna live forever with Brenda Guesnet, curator and deputy director of IKOB and the artist Xavier Mary (born 1982 in Liège, lives and works in Brussels)

Following a screening of the 1982 cult film Conan the Barbarian, artist Xavier Mary and curator Brenda Guesnet discuss cinematic myth-making and the industrial realities of Liège, Mary's hometown. They will explore how steel drives the narrative and philosophy of the film and how this resonates with the rise and decline of Liège's metal industry -- intersecting stories that inspire the core of Mary's artistic practice.

FREE ENTRY


Location :

Nosbaum Reding | Bruxelles
Rue de la Concorde, 60
1050 Brussels



About Brenda Guesnet:

Brenda Guesnet (b. 1993, Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany) is a curator with an institutional and an independent practice. She is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Since 2021, she is working as Curator and Deputy Director of IKOB – Museum für Zeitgenössiche Kunst in Eupen, in the German-speaking community of Belgium. At IKOB, she has curated solo exhibitions by Arthur Cordier, CMMC, Kristina Benjocki, Marcin Dudek, Veronika Eberhart, Francis Feidler, Helen Anna Flanagan, Alexandra Tretter, among others, as well as the group exhibitions “Eat the Rainbow”, “All our Yesterdays”, and the “IKOB – Feminist Art Prize”. She also curates and coordinates the museum's public and educational programmes, and produces the podcast ‘apropos'.

Brenda Guesnet has been realising independent curatorial projects since 2015, often as part of the collective ANGL. She is co-founder of celador, an independent space in Brussels. Recent independent projects include “The Fountain Show” at Kunsthal Mechelen, “Open M | Hidden in Plain Sight” at M Leuven and “garage” at celador. From 2025, she is the curator for Liebaert Projects, a private foun­da­tion for contemporary art in Kortrijk, Belgium.

Brenda Guesnet previously worked in the Artist Liaison department at White Cube (2017-2020) and as a curatorial assistant at Tenderpixel Gallery (2016-17), both in London, after completing an MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London (2015-17).

Text © Brenda Guesnet


Image: Xavier Mary, Group exhibition view, About Epic Myths, Nosbaum Reding Bruxelles, Brussels, 2024-2025. Photo: © Audrey Jonchères

Talk "Do you wanna live forever" with Brenda Guesnet & Xavier Mary

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